Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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#NephMadness Living Kidney Donor Case Challenge #LKDCC #3
Barry, 62, is under evaluation as a kidney donor to his wife Susan. At his first appointment, you measure his blood pressure at 155/95. Which one of the following is correct? A) You should tell Barry that he…
#NephMadness Living Kidney Donor Case Challenge #LKDCC #2
Hayley, 30, wishes to donate a kidney to her husband Rob. They have a 3 year-old child. Hayley has no known medical problems and is a non-smoker. Her BMI is 23 kg/m2, her blood pressure is 110/70 mmHg…
A New Breed of Nephrologists: Can We Change the Practice Paradigm?
I want you to put yourself in the shoes of your average nephrologist, it seems frenetic when looked at from a birds eye view. A typical day begins with rounding on first shift dialysis patients, then on to…
#NephMadness Living Kidney Donor Case Challenge #LKDCC #1
Rajiv, 39, wants to donate a kidney to his sister-in-law, Shen. His brother, Shen’s husband, is healthy, but unfortunately not a good match for Shen. Rajiv has no past medical history, is a non-smoker and his BMI is…
Chronic Kidney Disease for the Medical Resident: A Cheat Sheet for Primary Care Providers
1) The presence of markers of kidney damage for greater than 3 months in blood, urine, or on imaging a) e.g proteinuria, non-urological hematuria, polycystic kidney disease, horseshoe kidney, etc. or 2) The presence of a GFR of…
Progress in Prognostic Risk Stratification in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Educating patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is unique, as patients typically witness the course of the disease in their affected family members. This is often a parent, but due to the complexities of life including…
The Uncertainty of Monoclonal Gammopathies
I spend a lot of time discussing patients with renal disease and monoclonal gammopathies with my haematology colleagues, trying to figure out what is of ‘renal significance’ and ‘undetermined significance’. One of those discussions recently was around a…
Assessing the risk of CKD progression using Kidney Failure Risk Equations
“The best way to predict your future is to create it“. Abraham Lincoln Predicting the future is a tenuous concept and at face value is perhaps better suited to popular media and science fiction than medicine. We have…
Dialysis in Undocumented Immigrants: A Fellow’s Experience
This image was from Original Nate Hellman post in 2010 It’s Monday, I turn my pager on at 6:00am, and at 6:03am and again at 6:05am my pager promptly goes off. I recognize both of the numbers, it’s…
When You See Zebra Bodies…Think Commonly Prescribed Medications?
A patient presented with nephrotic range proteinuria and lung cancer, so we performed a routine kidney biopsy. During our pathology conference, we discussed a classic run-of-the mill case of membranous nephropathy secondary to malignancy. Our pathologist showed us…